Date: Thu, 12 Mar 2015 16:46:13 +0100
From: Natanael Copa <ncopa@alpinelinux.org>
To: Peter Bui <pnutzh4x0r@gmail.com>
Cc: alpine-aports@lists.alpinelinux.org
Subject: Re: [alpine-aports] [PATCH] main/mdocml: add patch to support
 manpages with *p extension
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Sorry late response. Been on vacation.

On Sat, 31 Jan 2015 23:51:00 -0600
Peter Bui <pnutzh4x0r@gmail.com> wrote:

> mdocml only stores the section name in its database and not the file's
> extension.  This is problematic for files such as
> /usr/share/man/man1/ls.1p since mdocml will try to use the section name
> (i.e. 1) as the file extension in the buildnames function, which will
> yield a file not found error when you try to do 'man ls'.
> 
> This patch modifies mdocml's database by adding a fsec field to the
> mlinks table.  This is then used to record the file section and thus
> allows for more reliable building of the manpage path.
> 
> With this patch, it is now possible to run 'man ls' with mdocml.

Have you reported this upsteam?

I don't want change the database schema without upstreams blessing.

I saw they have a new release coming up with support for running the
'man' command without any db. Do you think that will solve the issue?

-nc


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